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Leadership & Management Essentials: Leadership For Success!

Leadership Skills & Management Skills - The Qualities To influence, Motivate, Inspire And Lead Your Team To Success!

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The terms leader and manager are often used interchangeably, but there is a difference. And in todays competitive market, it's not enough to be one or the other...you must be able to be both, if you want to get the most from your team.

In this course, I will show you how.

"But why should I take your course, Alan?"

And that's an important question. Now, it may seem counter-intuitive, but I'm going to paraphrase something George Bernard Shaw said "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach", but some do both.

I remember when I was doing my formal qualifications in my chosen profession quite a few years ago...one of my lecturers often started his sentences with "When I was in industry..." He was a great guy, no doubt a brilliant academic, but he hadn't practiced what he was teaching for over 20 years. I think it's a perishable skill.

I could tell you I've worked at a senior level across several industry sectors: automotive, manufacturing, FMCG, healthcare, pharma, and service industries. I've worked in both the public and private sectors. I've been head-hunted by blue chip companies, Times Top 100 companies...but all of that is history. The important thing is...I still sucessfully do it.

This isn't a course on management theory. There are thousands of those. It's a practical one. It's hands on.

I will guide you through my Three T's Methodology for creating super-star teams, complete with 9 actionable exercises that you can do today.

I'll share with you my interview process for recruiting great people.

NLP techniques for effective communication.

We will cover the practical best ways to motivate your team.

Practical day-to-day leadership and management.

What to do with under-performers.

I'll even share all the best lessons I've learned from my great managers.

This course is the result of 30 years of ongoing experience.

If you currently lead, or manage people, you should take this course.

If you aspire to lead, or manage people in the future, you should take this course.

This course comes with Udemy's 30 Day Money-Back Guarantee, so if you're not completely satisfied, you can get a refund...no questions asked!

In this lecture, we'll take a birds eye view of the Time, Tools and Talent model.

Welcome To My World

02:42

Okay, let's get in to the first T: Time.

We'll cover the #1 essential quality in a manager.

I will show you how I introduce the Three T's concept to your team. How to set up the meeting, and what you should cover in it.

Then, we'll cover what you need to do to get honest responses from your team members!

The First T: Time

10:58

I this lecture, I will show one of the first things I am looking for when I do my "sit downs" with the individual team members.

Being Helpful: Or, Whose Job Is It Anyway?

04:20

Exercise 1: Being Helpful

Take some time to sit with the individual members of your
team, and check to see if they are doing anything that either outright doesn’t
sit within their job role, or things that may not. If in doubt, ask!

If you find any such activity, find out where that task
naturally sits, check job descriptions if you have to, and meet with the
relevant manager, and arrange for the task to be handed back.

Time Exercise 1 - Being Helpful

00:45

In this lecture I will show you another thing I am always on the look out for...

We'll get into lean manufacturing principles, and how you can simply apply them to get your team a little extra time...

If You Want It Doing Properly…

08:25

Time Exercise 2 - The Seven Deadly Wastes

00:52

Now we'll take a look at a simple method you can use to increase the productivity of your team, and the answers may already be there...

Modelling Excellence And Soup Questions

10:11

Time Exercise 3 - Modelling Excellence

00:48

A very quick introduction to our second T: Tools.

The Second T: Tools

00:44

Here, we'll take a look at a simple example of how a couple of my former team members solved a 10 year old problem in an afternoon...simple by solving a downstream problem.

Also, a very effective Japanese business philosophy :)

£179.99. Or, The Cost Of Solving A Ten Year Old Problem

07:58

Tools Exercise 1 - Downstream and Upstream Problems

00:58

Now we'll take a look at how solving an upstream problem, using a very simple automated solution, saved time, saved stress, and ensured we were working on the things we needed to work on!

Mission Mundane. Or, I Can’t Not Look

09:20

Tools Exercise 2 - Automation

00:57

In this lecture we will take a little dip in to Lean Manufacturing (Poka-yoke), and how you can use it to solve some very serious process problems...I always train my teams in the use of lean principles :)

That’s What I Expected To See…

07:29

Tools Exercise 3 - Poka-yoke

00:46

This is my favourite T: Talent.

I will use everything at my disposal to access this quality in my team. In fact, the first two T's are the stepping stone to get to here...so let's take a look.

The Third T: Talent

05:47

In this lecture we'll take a look at a simple system to enable you to access and share the great ideas and creativity of your peers...if someone has a great nugget of information that would benefit others...share it!

Planes and Peer Brains

04:39

Talent Exercise 1 - Info Share

00:40

This is a great story of how a young lady in one of my teams asked a question that hadn't occurred to me in 20 years...and how that question led her to saving 20 minutes, 4 times a day, and deliver the training she's never found the time to do...

Where Are My Trousers?

06:27

Talent Exercise 2 - Limelight And More Ideas

01:03

In this lecture, I'll tell you about the best Sales Meeting I ever attended...and how it sparked an idea that I've used ever since...

What Would Jesus Do?

07:06

Talent Exercise 3 - What Would (Pick Your Own Hero) Do?

00:49

That's it...my Three T's model. In here you'll find a couple of examples of the great things I've seen happen by applying it. Enjoy...

Three T's Summary

02:49

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Practical Leadership

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In this short lecture, we will take a look at what you can expect to learn from section 3

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Hi, my name is Alan, and I have almost thirty years of experience in teaching various subjects and have held senior management positions at several blue chip and Times Top 100 companies. I now specialise in consultancy and interim work.

My love for Excel began soon after the program was released. Back then, we really only used it for typing tables in our production planning department. If you can believe it, I was taught to then calculate with a calculator and TYPE the answers into Excel...you'd be surprised how many people I meet who still do this!

There were two turning points for me in my journey. The first was a chance conversation with one of our accountants when I was complaining how slow it was to keep having to flip between worksheets to see different bits of data. He introduced me to VLookups and a new world of possibilities opened up. I found that I need never have huge paper accountancy pads (remember those?) and a calculator to produce a production plan again! Suddenly, I could produce my plan in 15 minutes, rather than the day and a half it used to take. I began delving into other features of Excel, and finding ways to incorporate them into the planning "system" I had created, and remember this was back in the day when the internet hadn't been invented! Through trial and error, I refined my Workbook until I could chomp through days of work in seconds, and what's more, using these powerful features of Excel, I could optimise our production runs to get more output from the same working week, something that had never been done before. Promotion soon followed, and I became the "go to guy" for anything Excel related. This was the 90's.

Then, in manufacturing, came the MRP revolution. We had an army of programmers developing a system for us. This was my second turning point. I was awestruck with coders. The skill they had, and how clever they were, and that they were smart enough to go to university in the first place. I wasn't like that. I had no formal education beyond primary and secondary school, but a really cool programmer named Mark let me into a secret...

He said "If you can describe, step by step, how to cross the road without getting killed, you can be a programmer". I recorded my first macro, and took a peek under the hood. I deconstructed the VBA code, and played with it until I understood what everything did. Then I changed it to make it do what I needed it to do.

Since then, I have developed accountancy systems, simple planning systems, full blown MRP systems and scores of stand alone "helper" systems to simplify and speed up work in almost every department in every company I have worked in. Some of the solutions I created 20 years ago are still being used today! If you doubt the power of Excel, it may surprise you to learn that you can run the procurement of a £1.3b (yes, billion) company with an Excel file with a bit of coding behind it. This is a skill that people will pay highly for!

Not everyone wants to go that far, so over the years I have taught people to create efficient solutions for themselves, either with or without coding. Those who took the time to learn have since had multiple promotions, or have started their own businesses! At the very least, they are getting more work done in less time with less headaches :)

If you are a complete beginner, just want to polish up your skills, or want to create sophisticated super efficient solutions for your business or personal life, my series of courses will help you achieve that. All you need is a little time, and a willingness to learn...I'm looking forward to working with you.